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Well, that's a fresh start.Superman picks up "One Year Later" with an intriguing opening chapter. Kurt Busiek and Geoff Johns open "Up, Up, and Away!" with a number of quiet moments, as well as one or two bangs, and introduce us to a new status quo that is both fresh and familiar.Superman has been gone for a year, and the people of Metropolis seem to be doing ok. Clark and Lois continue their

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The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip RothQuick ReviewI'm torn on this book. It's strange because it's a novel that manages to be interesting on two almost fundamentally different levels, but the tension between the levels leaves you, as a reader, in an awkward predicament.Roth's alternate history deals with a world where Lindbergh runs for President in 1940 and wins, keeping the US out of

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Anansi Boys by Neil GaimanQuick ReviewAfter decent outings in his first two longform prose efforts, Neil Gaiman finally hits it out of the park on Anansi Boys. A light mix of contemporary fantasy, comedy, and a little horror, Anansi Boys is a quasi-sequel to his successful American Gods novel. Unlike that book, Anansi Boys is much smaller in scope, eschewing the slow epic lurch of it's

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YAWN. Okay, I have to admit that I had the episode of Survivor: Guatemala, that I missed due to Turkey day commitments, queed up for download at the time. This episode made that download seem to take even longer than it did. Ana Lucia has been fairly unpopular with the fans, and I don't feel like last week's episode helped give us anything more to make us like her. The writers said we'd

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I have to confess this, though I don't know why: last night was the first time I've seen "Lost" as it aired on tv (Thank you Netflix and ITunes!) I actually enjoyed last night's episode very much. It was nice to set up the other side of the plane as constantly under attack. The view of the island this group has is not going to jive with the other group's view. The "tailies" have had no golf

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So, raise your hand if you have not shot someone... NOT SO FAST EVERYONE ON LOST! I mean, really, is this really the best way to create dramatic tension? It seems like everyone is now at least partially responsible the death of someone else. I find the show to be fascinating, but isn't it posible to develop a little more SUBTLE points of conflict?? After the first two or three episodes,

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A Review of Blade: Trinity So I saw Blade: Trinity, the third and presumably final Blade film on Wednesday night. It's not particularly good, but it's an interesting kind of bad film. It's a strange mix of influences and genres, and of good moments with nothing in between. It's a disappointing directorial effort for a good screen writer who, paradoxically, manages to let himself down with his

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Computer problems, along with being a little under the weather, prevented me from posting the last few days. Regular posting should resume tonight and should go daily starting next weekend. I should have some thoughts on Maus and the Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban film.

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Daredevil: Director's Cut Review (DVD Release) Daredevil was a problematic film for a variety of reasons. Drawing inspiration from one of the richer corners of super-hero comics (Frank Miller's Daredevil books from the early eighties), the original theatrical cut release was mired by narrative confusion. It seemed to be a "greatest hits" style adaptation of the peak of the daredevil series,

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Thanks for stopping by this new blog, a spinoff of my "Morsecode" blog. I've created this so I've got a separate venue to handle discussions of things like Film, Music, Comics, and other pursuits, while the original "Morsecode" blog will be focused on news, politics, world events, and other serious stuff. So what's up in the near future for MorsecodePop? We'll have some DVD reviews over the

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